Momentument

The curation happened across three weeks in March 2025 where community members created, curated, and exhibited together a moment in time.

The project was later turned into a film as part of the OBJECT:PRAHA film series, written & directed by Tyko Say. The film premiered in Berlin on June 21st 2025 and later in Prague on August 21st.

The project & its film presents the idea "no artist is an island, but Žižkov can be" to celebrate a temporal and pragmatic approach towards expression. The project was centered around the question,

"If you could paint a state of mind, would that be art? And would anyone else be able to understand it? or would it just be a moment?"

The Events

For the first event of the project, community members were invited to dress two large blank canvases with whatever tools and modes of expression they had access to. By the end of the evening, the two canvases were covered in paint, text, nutella, glass, money, prescription medicine, and other mixed-media to reveal a holistic piece of community motif and moment.

For the second event, the community brought empty picture frames and placed them on the canvases in areas that they thought should be seen. By the end of the evening, 26 picture frames were nailed to the canvases, each frame with their own subjective perspective.
For the final event, we exhibited these unique perspectives and removed the excess canvases. And, by the end of the night, the frames on the walls slowly began to disappear as each of the community members took back their perspective, leaving the project with their own memory of the whole.

The 26 framed pieces, now separated from the collective canvas, exist not alone, but differently in their new spaces—as we do, as we will, until we meet again, newly, in the momentument.

The Project — Participants

The community members who created, curated, and exhibited the three events across March 2025.

Community Partners: Mîstečko Gallery · Žižkovšiška · Art Reuse · Žižkovská noc · The Prague Literary Calendar

The Film

Genre: Documentary, experimental
Runtime: 27:25
Format: Digital via VHS (PAL)
Aspect: 16:9
Colorspace: Color (PAL)
Sound: 5.1
Completion date: June 12, 2025
OBJECT:PRAHA V : Momentument is part of the annual OBJECT:PRAHA film series which aims to explore applications of the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.

If you could paint a state of mind, would anyone else be able to understand it? And would that be art? Or just a moment?

Momentument is a short documentary of an experimental project in the expat/immigrant community of Prague. Filmed entirely on VHS, the film explores the Prague underground where no one is an artist outside of the immediate, imperfect moment. What emerges is equal parts documentary, installation, and urban poem--a study of public authorship, temporality, and the soft chaos of making things together.

Director’s statement

Momentument is a film that not only captures the O:P Manifesto--perhaps better than any other films from the annual film series--but also contextualizes it in the place where it was born: Žižkov, a space where you’re allowed to be both a foreigner and a local.

It was a pleasure to work with so many artists and inspiring people for this project because it is them--our community--who brought the project and film to life.

Momentument is dedicated to anyone who was never given the opportunity to express themselves freely. This film is for the “bad” artists.

Screening History

• 31.10.2025 @ Prague Microfestival (Prague, CZ)
• 21.08.2025 @ Kino Pilotů (Prague, CZ)
• 14.06.2025 @ Urban Spree Gallery (Berlin, DE)

OBJECT:PRAHA V : Momentument — Film Credits

Music

“Republic of Žižkov”, “Gay Moshpit” and “Woman with a Mustache” — written and performed by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska of David’s Sister.

“Lipanská” — from the album OBJECT:PARADISE Vol. II: written and performed by Michal Wróblewski, Jan Chalupa, Miloš Klápště, Štěpán Janoušek, Roksan Mandel and Sandra Pasławska; recorded by Tomáš Jochmann at Baracca Records.

Live music recorded on location at Mîstečko during Event 3 — Roksan Mandel and Juliano Alfredo.

Archival live recordings: Roksan Mandel’s Improv Workshop Group Show (Žižkovšiška, 26.04.2024) · Siřem (The Grid Center, 25.03.2022) · Grůvíček Jazz Jam performances (The Grid Center, 29.03.2024).

Shot on location in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic

© 2025 OBJECT:PARADISE, z.s.

Additional Media

Official Trailer

Live video from event 3

Video mix by Sandra Pasławska
Video edited by Tyko Say
Camera by Sandra Pasławska & Tyko Say
Sax by Juliano Alfredo
Synth by Roksan Mandel
Readings by Jaromír Lelek, Honza Luhan, Jo Blin, Tim Postovít, Anna Pulkrabová
Thumbnail photo by Louis Armand

The zine

This zine is the physical representation of Momentument, featuring 20 pages of promotional material, pictures, and graphics from the project. It was a limited print, handed out to attendees at the Prague premiere on August 21st.

The zine features photos courtesy of Jan Černý.